My birthday is coming up in a few months and I'm going to be the supposedly cursed age of 27. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the curse, famous people like Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hedrix and Tupac, all died at the age of 27. All three of these men become even more successful after their deaths. I've made the assumption that if I fake my own death at 27 I'll become just as rich and famous as them, but I'll actually be alive to enjoy the money.

As Justin pointed out earlier this week, we're all a bunch of unmanly babies. I am no except to that rule. I, too, am afraid of the dark and freeze like a deer in headlights when I see a bug. I also really like cartoons, like alot. I was first in line to see Toy Story 3 and watch old school cartoons like Bugs Bunny, and I giggle like a school girl. I also really dig music. I pondered; "How can I combine my two loves in an awesome way? Draw a cartoon where people play subpar guitar?" Maybe... or I could make a list of the best cartoon bands! Seeing as how no one wants to see stick figures butcher Eric Clapton songs, I present to you my Top 5: Cartoon Bands.

5. Mystik Spiral (Daria)

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The quintessential grunge band. They constantly vowed to change their name, yet never commited. With songs like Behind My Eyelids Icebox Woman, and Every Dog Has Its Day.. it's hard to see why these guys never left the confines of Lawndale. I guess it was just the man keepin' them down

Peeps, Charlie Sheen, Gaga and Billy Joel... is there anything more Eastery?

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So, it’s been awhile since I’ve revisited this topic.

But I’ve been wildly looking around for more challenges that I’ll never have to be successful at. My confidence is high. My experience may not be. But some things are just EASY, right?

With that in mind, I’d like to present to you:

Some more things that I ASSUME that I can do:

Every generation a ground breaking musician comes along and transforms society’s idea of music. One of those musicians was Kurt Cobain, who in the early 90's, changed the landscape of rock music forever. Now we may be lucky enough to witness musician change music again in our generation. That artist's name is Rebecca Black and she won't rest until music sounds like something completely new and different.

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We may not even recognize the sound of it when she's done.

West Coast Rap icon Nate Dogg has died at the age of 41 from complications of multiple strokes. Here's the story from AP:

Say "Hi" to Matt.

Matt's new here. You'll probably see him around more, milling about at the water cooler, or hitting on that cute secretary on the 4th floor. From what we see, he has many more odd things running through his brain that we'd like to show you. Make him feel at home. =-D

Kisses and Hugs,
Ray

So, it's that time of year again... the holidays are upon us. The stores are jam packed with crazy customers, buying junk for people, that they don't need. There is a surplus of candy canes and other novelty red and green items. Christmas trees are being chopped down at a record pace. And I'm here... stuck listening to hours and hours of horrible Christmas music. ( I'm no Grinch, but after years and years of retail, Christmas music is a kind of torture in my mind. ) If I have to listen to that "Simply having a wonderful Christmastime" song one more time, or 17 versions of any Santa song...I'm goin postal.

So, in light of this, I present to you:

22 unpleasant or weird things I would rather listen to than Christmas music. (aka...cruel and unusual torture) with intermittent notes about songs I hate. Why 22? Because...22 is an even number.

Here goes...

So, Justin has been getting around alot lately. We're thinking about taking him on Maury. Brace yourself dear readers.

He's been writing blogs for other websites!

::GASP::

I know, right? Sadly, we can't do much to help him. He's addicted... fallen off the wagon... chasing the dragon... sleeping with the fishes......

... wait, that's not right.

Anyway. I'm no psycho analyst, but I'm pretty sure the best way to stop someone's addiction is to support it. So, go support Justin's habit and read his Top 5: Most Mind Boggling Male Sex Symbols Ever over at MakeTheList.net And don't forget to come back for his Things That Suck blog coming later today.

Not believing in time is apparently quite sexy?

As you can see I've changed the name of the blog from Tuesday's track to just The Track. I figured since everyone else was getting rid of their day centered blog titles I should probably follow suit. This is just to clarify for the five people who read this blog and might get confused. However, the title isn't the only thing that is changing this week, so is the format, but only for a month. Since Ray has decided to not pick terrible music and instead will feature all Metallica all the time for the month of October (or Rocktober, how original), I've decided it's impossible for me to say, "Hey, check out this better song". So instead I'm going to say, "Hey, check out this better video" and feature music videos from a band that has consistently released innovative and interesting ones. That band is of course OK Go.

Watch out Lady Gaga, OK Go proves other people can wear stupid outfits too.

Every week I'm going to talk about something I hate, something that's overrated, or something that just flat out sucks. This week we discuss birthdays. That annual countdown to your inevitable demise. Our birthdays are a special day that we celebrate with cake and balloons to make us feel better about the increasing grey hairs on our head and our diminishing memory. Sure your young now but before you know it you'll be blowing out the candles on your prune cake and forgetting where you live.

But losing your youthful good looks and dementia aren't the only reason birthdays suck...